Spatial macroecology, data science, conservation

AI for Earth Innovation Award

We are happy to announce that the Kitzes Lab has been awarded an AI for Earth Innovation award from Microsoft and National Geographic. Our proposal was one of 11 funded projects, which each receive financial support as well as Microsoft Azure credits for cloud computing work. This funding will specifically support our development of our open source acoustic classification software, OpenSoundscape, as well as our efforts to release 600 classifiers for North American bird species by the end of the year. Read more from National Geographic, Microsoft, and Pitt.

Our lab studies biodiversity loss and extinction in human-altered landscapes. To do this, we develop and apply macroecological theory in the lab and use acoustic recorders to study bird and bat distributions in the field.